Dr. Astrid Bochow: Curriculum Vitae and Publications
CURRICULUM VITAE
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Education
2009 Phd in Social Anthropology, Bayreuth University
2002 Master Magister, Freien Universität Berlin
Fellowships
2013 Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Constance
2012 Visiting Scholar at School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnology, Oxford University
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Academic
October 2014 - present Lecturer for Social Anthropology, Georg August Universität Göttingen
2011 – 2014 Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies (2013 – 2014), Lecturer for Social Anthropology (2014), Konstanz University
2010 - 2014 Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany (on leave)
2009–2010 Postdoc, Freie Universität Berlin
2003–2008 Researcher, Collaborative Centre for Humanities of Bayreuth University and Lecturer for Social
Anthropology
2002–2003 Researcher, GIGA
1996–2002 Studied Social Anthropology in Berlin and Marburg
MAIN PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
2010 Intimacy and Sexuality before Marriage. Youth and Pentecostalism in Kumasi, Ghana (Hamburg, LIT)
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Special Issues and Edited Volumes
2012 (together with Rijk van Dijk) Introduction: Christian Creations of New Spaces of Sexuality, Reproduction, and Relationships in Africa: Exploring Faith and Religious Heterotopia, special issue, Journal of Religion in Africa, 42, 4, 325-344
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Peer-Reviewed Articles
2012 Let's Talk about Sex! Reflections on Conversations about Love and Sexuality in Kumasi and Endwa, Ghana. Culture, Health and Sexuality, special issue: Sex, Secrets and Honour: Acts of Concealment and Disclosure (ed.: Anita Hardon), (first published online September 2012)
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Articles in Edited Volumes
Forthcoming Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Elites in Botswana: Ethics, Identities and Agency, In: Simpson, Bob and Kate Hampshire: ‘An Exploration of Cultures of Conception’. Oxford: Berghahn
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Ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen
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Bücher
2010 Intimität und Sexualität vor der Ehe in Kumasi und Endwa, Ghana. Gespräche über Ungesagtes. Hamburg. LIT [Intimacy and Sexuality before Marriage in Kumasi and Endwa, Ghana. Conversations about the Unspoken]
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Artikel in Fachzeitschriften (peer reviewed)
Angenommen:
Procreation Stories in Times of HIV/AIDS. Elites’ Body Cultures in 21st Century Botswana. HAU, Journal of Ethnographic Theory
2007 Valentinstag in Kumasi, Ghana. Sexualität und Generationenbeziehungen im Wandel. [Valentine’s Day in Kumasi, Ghana: Sexuality and Changing Intergenerational Relations] In: Erdmute Alber and Jeannett Martin (eds.), Familienwandel in Afrika. Afrika Spectrum (special issue): 57-78
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Herausgeberschaften:
2012 (with Rijk van Dijk): Christian Engagement in Times of HIV/AIDS in the Field of Sexuality and Reproduction in Africa, special issue, Journal of Religion in Africa
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Artikel in Sammelbänden
Im Erscheinen:
Choice to Health. Elites and Disrupted Reproduction in the Context of HIV/AIDS. In: Beckmann, Nadine et al.: Strings Attached. AIDS and the Rise of Transnational Connections in Africa. Oxford University Press
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Elites in Botswana: Ethics, Identities and Agency, In: Simpson, Bob and Kate Hampshire: ‘An Exploration of Cultures of Conception’. Oxford: Berghahn